Thematicize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make into or explore as a theme.

    "As opposed to this, politicology should thematicize practical life as a whole, namely, that part of life in which people joint not as a private political being in a private, separate political community, but as human beings in a community in which they reproduce a separate form of their historical existence."

  2. 2
    To insert a thematic vowel.

    "If, on the other hand, /T/ stands under the N or NP marked as GOAL/TARGET/VICTIM, the transduction protocol will thematicize the DO noun, in our case Caesar, and the rest of the lexo-tactics, independently learned and remembered by the speakers, will adjust the verb as Aux + Tense + V + Past Participle and the original Agent/Subject of the race will show up as by + N in sentence final position."

  3. 3
    To insert a thematic vowel.; To change from an athematic type into a thematic one Indo-European-studies

    "As late PIE evolved and split into dialects, many of the old root nouns and consonant-stems were thematicized."

Example

More examples

"As opposed to this, politicology should thematicize practical life as a whole, namely, that part of life in which people joint not as a private political being in a private, separate political community, but as human beings in a community in which they reproduce a separate form of their historical existence."

Etymology

From thematic + -ize.

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